Titans

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Titan Fortuna by Lucyfur919

Titans are capes who have experienced a broken second trigger,<ref>it is what the humans call a second trigger. It is what humans call a broken trigger, though this is wrong.

It is a failure to support. A desperate clutching at a well too intense and dangerous, collecting waste and fragments, extrapolating out wildly, without program or logic. - Excerpt from Heavens 12.all</ref> and have undergone an unnatural metamorphosis, causing them to merge with their shard.

Known Titans

Titan Networks
Dauntless aka The Kronos Titan<ref>Interlude 12.none</ref>, incorporating Alabaster Fume Hood aka Titan Eve
Contessa aka Titan Fortuna Victor aka The Nemean Titan Mr. Bough aka The Ophion Titan The Strange Titan
A consolidation of Prancer and Moose aka Titan Oberon Axehead aka Titan Skadi Auger
Hunter aka Titan Arachne
Cinereal aka The Ashen Titan

Appearance

Titans all differ greatly in appearance, with the capes individuals shards deeply affecting their appearance in titan form. One thing that is consistent is that every Titan is off an enormous size, easily clearing buildings. Fume Hood is noted as a smaller Titan than several others, and she is around six or seven stories.<ref>The screen showed a distant view of the others. Kronos, turned to look to one side. The fuming titan, now visible at her full height. Maybe six or seven stories tall, small compared to the others, her head more like a cowl or hood of black crystal, no face visible beneath, with the gas leaking out resembling long hair left to drape out, tumbling down her front until it dissolved. - Excerpt from Interlude 17.z II</ref> The largest titan, Kronos, reaches low-flying clouds, making him well above thousand feet tall. The majority of other titans are under 15 stories (~160 feet).

Their common features include power-exaggerated hair, the lack of facial features, and legs being melded into a single column (with some exceptions).

When damaged they bleed, but not in a ways that suggest conventional circulatory systems and the bleeding quickly ceases.<ref>Blood washed out of the wounds, always in short spurts that ceased within seconds of starting, always unobstructed flows, like water from an opened dam, but thicker. - Excerpt from Radiation 18.5</ref>

Power Level

Titans are of significantly more potent power than their former selves were, their shards have been fully brought to bare.<ref>Peanuckle: What I'd like to know is what sorts of abilities the shards can perform without limiters. Judging by QA and Khepri, shards are pretty much bullshit. But what about shards like Grue's, or Tattletale's, or Grey Boy's, acting outside a host to defend their Entity-body? Is there any comparison, or are "unshackled" powers so far beyond what we see that it's laughable?

Wildbow: Look at Noelle or the Bitch epilogue chapter for what a shard does when it's really unleashed - depending on the host, the nature of the unleashed power can vary, specializing as it develops toward a task/specific implementation.

Grue's power would just spew darkness out in very direction to pretty much blanket and isolate an entire city, his body would become a vehicle for the power, and he'd mutate, quite possibly turning the 'tap into other passengers' ability into a link to just absorb power. Broken/dead shard, he'd continue doing so until those passengers lashed out, creating isolated, power-based effects/chunks of Grue in the midst of the city.

Tattletale's power would just scale up constantly in power, reach, and intensity of detail. The shard might not have broken 100% clean - Scion might have given it some tools somewhere in there, so I can imagine a Tattletale-sub-entity scaling up to a breaker state or tapping into a tinker ability to network/develop more hardware/brainware to process it all. Scale up to processing multiple dimensions at once, and develop/manifest/obtain a weapon. Going back to the tools Scion gave, a simple blaster power with a clean, possibly invisble terrain-penetrating laser, with Full-bore-tattletale focus at work to discern the best possible weak point? Or even just a Tattletale in the middle of it, holding a gun? Picture her systematically picking off threats one after another, from highest priority to lowest, from the center of the incident sites, maximum range.

Basically, you unshackle, the power scales up, the mind/body start to break down, and if the host is lucky, the shard can provide some means of housing the new data and form.

Standalone, without a host, the manifestation for the shard itself confronted in its own world, would be very similar in execution. - Wildbow of Spacebattles</ref> Thus they are able to endure untold attacks and dish out lethal ones with seeming ease. The Wardens noted that a consistent thing among all the titans is that they got a vast increase in durability and reach.<ref>Radiation 18.2</ref>

Every Titan has the full capabilities of their shard, and are able to use many more abilities than their original parahuman self could use. The other abilities they can use are presumably ones that they could have given to other capes.<ref>Related powers factored into what Titan Eve was doing. That pink gas, it wasn’t in her normal set of talents. Was that a power the agent had but hadn’t handed out? Something for a future host, or a possible evolution of the power?

Like how my family had lasers and forcefields as redundant things, but some of us kids, like myself, had something pulled from the same agent. My damn sister had her dad’s master of biology, but a completely different angle. He controlled one aspect of his, she controlled a thousand different aspects of anyone but herself.

Tristan and Byron had the same root power but other stuff came and went, like he’d remarked, and it changed with mental state.

Did the Titans have full access to the full portfolios they’d managed as agents? - Excerpt from Radiation 18.4</ref><ref>“There’s more of them. Each one has the full capabilities of the agent that originally worked with the host. All of the powers it could have handed out.” - Excerpt from Radiation 18.4</ref>

According to Tattletale, the Titans will continue to be created and keep escalating for the next 300 years. If they were allowed to coalesce they will wipe out the nearby parahumans and grow stronger individually and in their claim as the new network hub.<ref>“If we retreat and regroup, those two are going to connect up, we’ll die if we aren’t far enough away, and the people who pick up where we left off will have to fight stronger titans with a more cogent network. When enough of them network, that’s it,” Tattletale told Parian.
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“I saw into the cracks. I saw the connections, the glows, I put it together with what I remembered from last night. There will be more titans, as sure as water flows downhill. If we win every fight from here on out, all we’ll do is hold the line, and every week or month for the next three hundred years, there will be more cracks, more titans.” - Excerpt from Radiation 18.4</ref>

Titan Fortuna implied that she, and by extension every Titan, are more powerful than the Endbringers.<ref>And that silver woman was so much weaker and smaller than the Titan she faced. Titan Fortuna, named such so that the little girl who had found the forward-looking eye could fulfill her promise to herself, that when all of this was over, she could be Fortuna again. - Excerpt from Interlude 18.z II</ref>

History

Assault on the Time Bubbles

The first Titan was created when March popped a time bubble that held Dauntless, Alabaster, and Jotun within. Dauntless and Alabaster immediately began to have a broken trigger, with Dauntless ultimately subsuming Alabaster and becoming the Kronos Titan.

Jotun was incapacitated by March before his Second Trigger took effect, sparing him from becoming a Titan.

The Second Shin Crisis

The Kronos Titan intercepted the Gibborim Knight as it moved to attack the Machine Army, driving it off.

The Ice Breaks

When Fume Hood broken triggered into a Titan near a portal it started a cascading dimensional tear, that opened physical access to The Shardspace and forced several other capes into titanifying broken triggers. Some immediately started attempting to form a network with one another. Fortuna became a hub for Nemean, Ophion, Ashen and Stranger titans. Eve joined to Kronos, and Auger to Oberon.<ref>Lines connected titans. One between Dauntless and Eve. Then Titan Fortuna with lines of varying strength to the Ophion, Nemean, and Ashen Titans; to Bough, Victor, and Cinereal, respectively. Another line seemed to connect Titan Oberon to the unnamed new Titan, Auger. - Excerpt from Radiation 18.2</ref><ref>The Stranger Titan from the Northeast, with a vague marker that showed the likely area and a guess at the distance.

By the connections we’d observed, all three appeared to be linked to Titan Fortuna. - Excerpt from Infrared 19.1</ref>

Eve began approaching Oberon with the goal of subsuming him. The two fought. Breakthrough, The Undersiders, The Major Malfunctions, Deathchester, and Rooftop Champs attempted to stop them, with a mixed success.<ref name="II18.4">Radiation 18.4</ref>

Ophion was initially forced into retreat by the Dragonflight's artillery,<ref name="II18.5"/> but shortly resumed his attacks.<ref name="II18.9">Radiation 18.9</ref>

Auger started processing Machine Army into tinker-tech, and submitted Skadi, who helped Oberon to fight off Wardens and Eve.<ref name="II18.5">Radiation 18.5</ref>

Kronos took a guard near Fortuna, preventing other titans from reaching her. He was being reinforced by Wardens.<ref>“Dauntless is fighting off any of her Titans that try to get close to her, so they can’t connect or do whatever Moose and Prancer did. Some of the Wardens are going to see what they can do to make him stronger.” - Excerpt from Radiation 18.9</ref>

Arachne continued being tied with Shin Defense Initiative. She stayed the last un-networked titan.<ref>Lab Rat was digging his heels in, using the giants my sister had helped create to protect Shin from Arachne. Hunter.

Now the only Titan who hadn’t joined one of the networks.- Excerpt from Radiation 18.9</ref>

On Antares' advice the Wardens sent unpowered saboteurs into The Shardspace, which immediately attracted the attention of Oberon's and Fortuna's networks, as well as Ziz.<ref name="II18.10">Radiation 18.10</ref><ref>Ophion coming from the East. Nemean from the West.

The Stranger Titan from the Northeast, with a vague marker that showed the likely area and a guess at the distance.

By the connections we’d observed, all three appeared to be linked to Titan Fortuna. - Excerpt from Infrared 19.1</ref><ref name="II18.z">Radiation 18.z</ref> Two titan faction attacked each other.<ref name="II19.2">Infrared 19.2</ref>

Valkyrie's Flock involvement with Auger had unintended consequences, as Auger decided to let the Machine Army past the portal to tie them in.<ref name="II18.z"/>

The Shardspace was successfully bombed, temporarily shutting down powers and weakening Titans. Skadi was cut off from Oberon's network by Rain's efforts.<ref name="II19.2"/>

Fortuna moves towards Earth Shin.<ref name="II19.2"/>

Fanart Gallery

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The Kronos Titan by Zearoe on Reddit.

References

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Endbringers	Behemoth {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Leviathan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • The Simurgh • Khonsu {{#switch: unknown	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Tohu {{#switch: unknown	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Bohu {{#switch: unknown	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }}
Titans	The Kronos Titan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Titan Eve {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Titan Fortuna {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • The Nemean Titan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Titan Arachne {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Titan Oberon {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • The Ashen Titan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Titan Skadi {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • The Ophion Titan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • The Strange Titan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Auger {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Titaness Amenonuhoko {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • The Flowing Titan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Drillbit {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • The Liminal Titan {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Pouffe {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Valkyrie {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Morgana {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Yakshini {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Ashoka {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Ghast {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }}
Groups	The Slaughterhouse Nine {{#switch: former	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Three Blasphemies • The Machine Army
Parahumans	Ash Beast {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Echidna {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Khepri {{#switch: former	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Nilbog • Pastor {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Scion {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }} • Sleeper • The Tower {{#switch: deceased	deceased=^†	noncanon=^≠	former=^‡	unknown=^*	#DEFAULT= }}